Beneath the surface decay of a toxic, dying world lives the Mad Doctor Mindskull. He has created the ultimate weapon, using the planet's own power to destroy it. Can mankind unite to find a way to stop this Evil before time runs out? The only answer lies within... The Nova Seed.

NOVA SEED is a gorgeous, spirited achievement of mind-bendingly original sci-fi fantasy, drawing comparison to the work of greats from Ralph Bakshi to Hayao Miyazaki. This remarkably painstaking work of entirely hand-drawn animation took over four years to craft, and was created by a single human: Canadian independent creator, writer, director and producer Nick DiLiberto, in association with Toronto's House of Cool.

"NOVA SEED is entirely animated by Nick DiLiberto – who spent 4 years of his life, hand drawing, coloring and shading every frame of the film. 60,000 or so. It’s an hour and four minutes, putting it at the runtime of many old movies from the classic era – and due to the amazing sense of motion, color, vivid originality and awesome post-apocalyptic trippy coolness. This animated film that feels utterly Canadian – sometimes even stylistically hinting at the great Sally Cruikshank’s QUASI AT THE QUACKADERO. You will want MINDSKULL toys. Lion Man I love. The Nova Seed… so awesome. This thing started and ended and the mind and body expansion that takes place inbetween requires no drugs, no inebriation. It is a waking vision of a far crazier and awesome universe that poured out of Nick DiLeberto’s imagination incrementally, but consecutively fan-fucking-tastic!" (Ain't It Cool News)

"With an artistic style that beckons back to the worlds created in Heavy Metal from 1981 and character designs from, say, 1968's Yellow Submarine and whiffs of Japanese anime, it is a wildly imaginative world full of creatures both familiar and alien. Nova Seed is also an ambitious adventure film, with a terrific air combat sequence as its centerpiece, the hour is chock full of action, often with sound effects supplied by DiLiberto, like the ‘ping’ of a sword sticking in stone or the gatling gun spitting fire from NAC’s escape ship. It all culminates with the fight against a great creature of Ghibli-esque grandeur and fearsome size." (Screen Anarchy)

Sunday, November 6
Doors 3:00 pm | Movie 3:30

Tickets to NOVA SEED $10 advance | $12 at the door

Catch both NOVA SEED and the Rio Grind Film Festival's Sunday Short Film Block for $13 advance | $15 at the door

*Must be 19+ w/ID for entry and bar service.
**Groupons and passes OK! Please redeem at the door.

**Seeing more than one movie during the Rio Grind Film Festival? Why not buy a day or full film festival pass?**